Over the weekend TrekMovie reported on a Viral ‘Alternative Reality Game’ for the new Star Trek movie with clues being left in images and on various websites. Although we think we solved one of the clues, it appears there is more to this game than originally thought. Today we have some more found clues, which only lead to more questions about the scope of the overall game.
[article updated with more clues found by TM community members]

More Star Trek ARG clues [UDPATED]Over the weekend TrekMovie, with the help of some of the community members, tracked down the URL for a website, based on clues from other websites (see full story). Originally the clues indicated that this website (http://97.74.158.186/) would go live on Friday, but it is already live with some cryptic clues that have shown up over the last couple of days.

Here is what is there now (Wed. afternoon):

PHPChatUser1: テスト中、テスト中。誰かいる？僕が時間より早いのはわかってるんだけど、誰か応答もらえた？

____PHPChatUser1 has disconnected____

PHPChatUser2: Carrefour de la Rue de la Fédération et Rue de Presles

____PHPChatUser2 has disconnected____

Thefirst bit is in Japanese and a translation (thanks to TM Twitter follower Ben Warren) is:

Testing, testing. Is anyone there? I know that I am early. Will someone answer?

The second ‘PHPChat’ message is in French an translates to identifying an intersection between two streets (Rue de la Fédération and Rue de Presles). Those are real streets in Paris and they do intersect, close to the Eiffel Tower. You can see the intersection at Google maps, including a ‘street view.’ The only thing really of note is a cafe ‘Les Presles.’ It isn’t’ clear if this is the clue, or if there is something on that corner. la Federation does translate into ‘Federation’ which has an obvious link to Star Trek, but Presles is just and onld French name and does not have an obvious Trek connection.

(TrekMovie has asked our friends at Unification France to send a man to the intersection tomorrow to see if there is anything there…we will report any findings)

French clue?

If anyone has any ideas what the above French and Japanese clues could lead to, type it into the comments below.

UPDATE: French clues leading to email address?Many TM community members have noticed that the French intersection is showing up in a number of posts on various French websites, like this one at this one at lepost.fr. All the posts are being left by a ‘Malak0′ who joined these sites on April 15th. The posts are notices that Malak0 found an electronic device. Here is a translation from Eric Saussine of Unification France:

I just put an announcement on Vivastreet for Appareil: rue-de-la-federation-et-rue-de-presles It looks like a PALM with a large digital screen – bigger than a phone but not really a laptop. I didn’t succeed in making it work but I will try again. All I get from it is a rather annoying buzz. I was sitting at the café at the intersection of rue de la Fédération and rue de Presles when a guy ran through. He fell by hitting the chairs and started shouted loudly at every people without reason who tried to help him. He was running so face I coudn’t see his face. Once on his feet, he ran towards the bank on the other side of the street. When the waityer came back to put the chairs in place I saw the funny machine. If you’re the one who lost it and if you’re no serial killer and if you’re not crazy, you can contact me by email. I think such an item deserves a reward!

Now the email address for Malak0 is mklvnd@aol.fr (notice the middle letters ‘klvn’ for USS Kelvin?). Emails sent to this address so far get no reply. [and I apologize to Malok0 if you are not part of this Star Trek ARG.]

UPDATE: New ‘stardate’ website
Also some Trek fans have found out that http://www.2387-42.com/ is the same website as the IP website (http://97.74.158.186/). It is worth noting that Stardates in the movie use that same format with the real year and then 42 would signify which day of the year (so that stardate would be for February 11th, 2387). This date seems to line up with the events of the "Star Trek Countdown" comic series, which is a prequel to the Star Trek movie.

Well done TM community, keep the clue search going!

From original article…

Sound clue?Even though a URL was discovered from that first set of website clues, there may still be more clues to the game embedded. We still don’t know what the Roman numeral VI means that shows up on all the sties. Also TM reader Matt Wiley think he has found Star Trek effects sounds, when he slows down the audio from the flash movies that play on the various ‘binary’ sites. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.

Number clue on official site?
TM community member ‘WhatInBlueBlazes’ has been looking closely at the official site at startrekmovie.com and noticed that the number 680 pops up in a few places around the bridge panoramas. It could just be a coincidence, or it could be a clue.

Does 680 mean anything?

What does it all mean?Even if this is not a clue, it is possible there are other clues on the official site. The way these ARG things work, clues tend to be on multiple sites. Our last article was focused solely on clues found in pictures from Star Trek Dance Parties at TheCobraSnake.com, but that does not mean that is the only location for clues.

If you think you have solved something or just are on to something, let people know in the comments below. Also if you think you are on to something, feel free to send it in an email to: tips at trekmovie dot com.

Wow this is cool! I will admit I have a massive soft spot for viral marketing! I often find it very poetic especially as the world is so small these days, what with globalisation and all! Very exciting stuff indeedie…no idea though, sorry!

If you do a view->source on the PHPChat page, you can see that there is a timer set to update the page every second, however, upon page load, it stops the timer.

Based on that and the rest of the source, it looks like a half-implemented web chat client, if the name PHPChat wasn’t obvious enough. If you removed the part of the page that stops the page load, and add a text box that posts back to the server, I would think you’d have your text chat client all set. There is an AJAX library used by the page and it’s really in depth.

I don’t know if there really are clues here. Someone could be testing something on the site before it or something else goes live.

My first thought is that perhaps the intersection is where the Federation HQ, Palais de la Concorde, is located at in the future, but that’s not right.

All of this is WAY over my head, but I noticed something about that sound file that I can’t help but mention. I’m not hearing sound effects from the new movie (in part because I don’t know what that would sound like), I’m hearing another Trek tie-in — V’Ger. Does this not sound like that? At least parts of it, the “whoooping” sounds.

I’m sure that V’Ger doesn’t factor into anything… it would seem like a major detour from what they’ve already done. But that was my impression of the audio clue.

Oh… before I “say it!”… I’m convinced some of this is backwards too. I know this was talked about in the other thread, but some of this sounds clearly reversed.

This particular type of viral marketing is – in a word – stupid. The only people who are willing to spend the time to work it out, and enjoy the process of working it out, are people who are ALREADY going to see the movie. This approach will likely not put one more butt in a seat come May. I have no idea why anyone at Paramount would authorize such an ad campaign . . . but if you like puzzles have at it!

I hate to say it, but these are the lamest viral games ever. I wasn’t a big viral game fanatic to begin with, but I remember following the viral campaigns for “The Dark Knight” and even “Cloverfield” (guess which movie let us down the most). This is just boring, even for “Star Trek”.

Although I still think that some of these sounds resemble V’Ger, I’m sure that’s not the direction they’re going. I reversed the .wav provided by Matt Wiley and what I hear is very distorted music (sorry, don’t have a way to post it). One of the sounds, loud and clear, is what sounds like somebody banging on industrial cables, but rhythmically. It’s almost a drum beat.

Perhaps someone with more audio processing savvy can dig in a bit more. Maybe a melody is discernible, and with that a new clue?

Seattle Trek Fan,
I think you may be on to something. The Federation Government is in Paris.
I still think that this is like the radio signals that travel through space, but we are getting them from the future.

What ever this is, it’s made this 41 year old excited about Star Trek again.

to me it sounds like various sounds used for the transporter throughout the series/movies/generations all mashed up together. especially the sound used for the transporter in ST II and III, just distorted. Or the new warp drive sound or something. I can’t see into it any further than that. :/ …fascinating…

Well i just reversed the sound, and to be honest, it kinda sounds like some sort of music, i cant quite know what to make of it. For those more experienced with sound engineering, see if you can try and “clean it up”.

@40 – the index.php?sid=’+sid means that they (might) have php code in the document that handles the variable “sid”. The Math.Random() just assigns a random value to sid, then the “sid=” is the PHP way to pass values using the “GET” method instead of the “POST” method. So what that all means, I have no idea because we have no way of seeing the PHP code that they have on the page >.<

@54 – That’s just a document type definition. An effort to make all pages on the internet conform to a standard (XHTML Strict). That’s the strict one, meaning that your code has to be perfect for it to be validated as strict XHTML. There are 2 others i think… Transitional and Frameset… That really doesn’t point to anything spectacular, unfortunately :(

The Javascript at the top of the page is simply making an Ajax call to what is intended to appear as a scrolling chat window. The call to the Ajax.Updater to is simply a reference to the “index.php” page at the host site, while the ?SID= is simply a parameter being passed to the script on the server.

Right now, the value of SID is randomly generated and doesn’t affect the operation of the page. You can manually type the entire URL of the site (http://97.74.158.168/index.php?sid=1) (or any number other than 1 you wish) and you’ll get the same content you see just hitting the site directly.

I strongly suspect the Javascript code is intended to appear as a chat page that will be updated with new “messages” at various intervals that are of anyone’s guess. I think the intent of the “scrolltobottom” code is to give the website the illusion/animation of a “live” chat window.

There are many numbers present in the Google StreetView, including ones from street signs and ones on license plates. Could these be the clues to another website? Part of a license plate is “279”, which, backwards, could be the start of an IP address with “97.2….”? Stretching, I know.

I notice there is a store on the Paris street corner named Barclays with a cat poster on the window across from Le Presles. Clicking on the street view arrow into the red truck makes it more obvious. The cat looks similar to Lt. Barclay’s cat Neelix as seen in Voyager and memory-alpha. just an observation. its probably nothing.

@65 – Unfortunately Javascript doesn’t really let you have strict XHTML very easily. However, they’re at fault for using “language=’javscript'” instead of “type=’text/javascript'” in each of their javascript blocks.

@59 – I had a long response typed up, but I lost it by accident :( Suffice to say, I have run all the tests that I can think of and I believe you are quite correct. Show me the hoop so I can jump through it now :P

Don’t you think there is certainly a lot of code for such a sparse, plain text site? I am not an expert on code so, is there some kind code that does not create visible stuff on the page, but encrypts something, or something? Like I said, I am no expert, & just know a little bit about HTML code.

@71 – Well, if there is any PHP code on the page (and the page is index.php, but that doesn’t mean they have php code on it) we can’t see it anyway and have no way of getting at it… The Web server processed the PHP and then renders the response as HTML before sending the page back to your computer/browser, so we can never see PHP code behind a page.

As for “hidden” things, it may not be visible on the page, but it would show up in the source somewhere. The encrypting thing may be, but that would take a packet sniffer/traffic watcher to determine, and I doubt that is what is happening.

In your screen capture that is titled “Does 680 mean anything?” The image on the right looks just like the province of Alberta. So are they finally getting the showing that they have been trying to get in Vulcan, Alberta?

I noticed by past posters that many of the alleged viral sites were registered through godaddy.com. If one enters “http://http://97.74.158.186/stats” to prompt the page’s statistics, one is presented with a popup requesting a username and password. The popup mentions another website, “2387-42.com”. The various ‘whois’ sites didn’t have much information on this site that I could find, however if one navigates to http://www.2387-42.com, the same enigmatic ‘chat’ appears here.

I’m not familiar enough with the intricate minutiae of Star Trek, does 2387-42 mean anything to anyone?

@40, @53, @59 – Usally when a webpage makes multiple requests back to the server using the same URL, a random variable is tacked onto the end of the requests to fool the browser and any proxy servers into thinking that it’s a unique request, therefore, it must actually make contact with the server to get new information. If it doesn’t do that, sometimes the browser or proxy servers will assume that whatever they have in the cache is still good and send that along instead. If that happens, you can’t be sure you’re getting the most recent version of the page.

So ‘sid’ isn’t a clue.
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@24, @27 – yea, I realized that after I posted it. I’ve been avoiding reading much about the story, so I wasn’t thinking about Iowa at the time.
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I’m not sure there are any clues on this page at all, at least not yet. We’ll see what happens on Friday when it goes live. Or maybe the clue is that it will go live on Paris’ Friday? I don’t know. Too much work for nothing right now.

#83….maybe I can partially answer my own question. Someone from startrekonline.com mentions that the movie starts at the end of the comic cliffhanger, which occurs in the year 2387. I haven’t read any of the comics…is this true?

#83: 2387, according to Memory Alpha the Star Trek Wiki, is the year in which the Countdown comics take place. http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/2387 And just out of curiosity, I went to page 42 of the TPB. It is at the point in the story when Picard & Spock meet for the first time since Unification, Spock is only allowed back on Vulcan because of “an old captain’s prerogative.” Also, Data has to remind Picard that the Enterprise is no longer OUR ship, but is just his.
I don’t know if anyone can figure anything out from this or not.

Probably agree, but I’m not entirely convinced there isn’t at least the opportunity to backfill that site with some other content pretty easily, and differentiating what gets displayed by altering how that SID value is generated. Random today, but tomorrow….?

I don’t know what any of that means but there are going to be people dressed up in Star Trek uniforms / costumes running around all the major cities with promos and give aways for two weeks before the picture comes out.

On the Google Maps Streetview of the Paris intersection, the van is transporting Kronen*borg* lager.

Maybe we will see some product placement of a Kronenborg tinnie in the movie, linked to a viral marketing campaign. Winner gets a lifetime supply of lager. “Star Trek powered by Kronenborg. Resistance is futile.”

I too noticed the change in the site with the “phpchat” mid-day today just before I left for work.
I kept on thinking about it all evening and when I got home tonight I had to check again.
I didn’t realize that this afternoon I was looking at a new “clue”, but it I knew felt odd.
“Rue de la Fédération” was something… it must be…
When I brought up this site I was pleased to see all this info on this thread.
I also looked at the source and page info tonight… nothing seems out of line. Or is it?
I assume this url will have something more on Friday.
I just can’t help but think there is something big in all this we are missing…
but where to look?
I guess I’ll go back and look over all the clues again and see if there are any other numbers that may be dates, coordinates, url addresses, zip codes, etc
I think I may be up a while…

What if the messages are popping up in languages of where the World Tour is going…I mean weren’t they just in France? and before that didn’t they do Asia somewhere? MAybe the next clue is going to be in the language of the next stop?

It has clearly a connection with the ST arg.
It says roughly that a man running there fell over and lost a weird electronic device. The person who found it is giving an email address if ones want to claim it back.

Might be worth a try. I can translate the all story if you want but I guess it will be easier than Japanese!

I must have been more or less asleep yesterday when I posted these. If one does a ping to http://www.2387-42.com, it comes back with 97.74.158.186, our mystery website. So it would appear that http://www.2387-42.com is indeed a proper URL for this site, and as a couple of others here have pointed out, it is the year in which the comic series apparently ends and the movie begins. I’m not sure about the ’42’ however. Perhaps this is a day? 42nd anniversary of Star Trek?

I just posted an announcement on Vivastreet for a device found on the corner of Rue de la Federation and Rue de Presles. It resembles a large PALM with a digital screen: larger than a telephone, but not really a laptop either. I could not get it to function,. but I’ll keep trying.

All I could get out of it for the moment was a pretty annoying humming sound. I was actually seated on the terrace of a cafe on the corner of rues de la Federation and de Presles, when a guy ran past. He fell, tangling his legs in one of the terrace chairs, and then began screaming violently when people came to see if he was OK. He was runnning extremely fast (I’ve rarely seen someone run so fast), so fast that I didn’t have the chance to see his face, except that I could see he wore a hat.

One he had hadden gotten up, he continued his run toward the bank across the street, and it was then while the server was putting the chairs back in place, that I saw this strange device. If you are the person who lost it, and are not completely crazy, or a serial killer, you can contact me via e-mail, I’d think such an object deserves a small reward!

I had a look at the street level view of the Crossing of Rue de la Fédération and Rue de Presles and noticed something out of place.

All of the vehicle registration plates had been blurred off, except for the BMW X5 which has the plate that reads:-

“279 QDX 75″

According to Wikipedia, a French plate bears a “number” of the following formats: either nnnn LL dd, or nnn LLL dd.
– nnn (or nnnn) is a 2-, 3- or 4-digit number.
– LL (or LLL) is a 2- or 3-letter group.
– dd is a 2-digit number indicating the département in which the car is registered.

The BMW is a car that is registered in the département of Paris. The plate is not of the 2009 series.

I would discount the Google street photo as simply their generic photo reference for that intersection, and not a possible clue source.

I tried staring at the map, and apart from Champs de Mars and a the French Military Academy at the sound end of the park, (not far from our intersection), I get nohing. Champs de Mars were once the Academy’s drill grounds.

@ 118: Call me naive but I don’t think Paramount can just change the content of Google street view for this viral game.
It’s more likely that Google just forgot to blur out that license plate. When was this shot taken? I’ve never used street view but is it really updated often enough to be relevant?
Maybe I’m wrong.

Nico, AJ — thanks for the lead about the article in Le Post. I would agree that this is definitely connected to the ARG. The question is, how? I wonder if Malak0 will post an image of the device he allegedly found.

As for the number 680, I have also found it all over the overhead screens in the video clip that was released, in which Spock and Kirk get into an argument after Kirk and Scotty have beamed aboard. It’s also in a number of other places on the website. It’s definitely either a graphics department in-joke or a clue.

Wow, I missed that too. I pulled my rusty french skills out of retirement to shoot an e-mail over to mKLVNd@aol.fr… it’ll be interesting to see if I get a reply.

I said that the device was not mine, but that it might belong to somebody I know (Spock?). I asked for an image so that I might show it to my acquaintance. If I get an image, I’ll be sure to let you all know.

Anthony: Today it’s just speculation about that story. Some of us have e-mailed the French address, which may refer to the Kelvin. Speculation on as to how the ‘running guy’ story links to the Japanese and French messages posted earlier.

“Running guy:” Spock? Romulan? Robau?

Also, there is work being done to associated those odd sounds with an altered phaser sound or Bridge sound from ST09.

On a number of different French language websites, including le poste, kijiji.fr, and vivastreet.fr, there is an announcement by a recently-signed-up poster calling themselves Malak0 or MalakO.

They’re talking about an object, described as technologically sophisticated, with a screen and between the size of a laptop and a phone, that they found when a mysterious hat-wearing figure ran through the intersection of Federation and Presles. The figure dropped it when he stumbled.

There is an e-mail address, mKLVNd@aol.fr, where MalakO is asking for the owner to get in touch to recover the device.

There are bridge sound FX in the audio clip when it is reversed and slowed down slightly, specifically the viewscreen sound.

The number 680 appears very prominently on the real set of the bridge, specifically in the Spock vs. Kirk and Scotty clip recently released.

Did someone tried to address the Guy in the E-Mail with “Hello Captain Robau” or something like that? Maybe he just answers if someone picked the right Code Words, so that no innocent one interfere with the game?

Anthony, http://www.2387-42.com pings back to the same IP that is supposedly will go live on Friday. 2387…possibly the year that the comic series ends and the movie begins? Not sure about the 42 though.

Anthony: is the 2387-42 the same format as the new Stardates in the movie? You said that they were different and more like our current dates, and that it’d be more understandable to non Trek fans, so I’m guessing this might be the format. The year, then a number for the day, be it earth days or some standard for the whole Federation.

I think I figured out the Roman numeral VI. I think it mean Nero. In the bible in revelation john refers to the number of the beats as 666. well all ancient langueges had number associated with letters like roman numerals. If you take Nero’s name (the real emperor of the Romans Nero) and spell his name in Hebrew it is nrwn qsr which when broken down into values equals 666. It could explain the 6’s or it could not just a thought

It’s times like these I wish I could drop everything and fly to Paris to just wait and see…because I had nothing better to do. Then again it’s also times like these I wish I had the time and skill to properly participate. Until I do, all I can do is keep listening to it…the sounds are strangely hypnotic, probably because my curiosity is getting the best of me. Hell, I’ll just wait til tomorrow.

While I can’t dedicate the time that some are to this puzzle, I sure love checking in to see how the thought processes are proceeding, and you da man for providing the space to do it. Thanks for hosting this site!

…so maybe the info in the pic is a clue…
The Cafe, “Kronenbourg”, Barcleys Bank (where the stranger who dropped the device ran) and the readable tag “279QDX75″ on a BMW, Zone 30 signs, the numbers 130E18 on the right side window of the white truck, FNA 09/200(7?) on the back of the same truck over the cab.
Does anyone see any other numbers or potential clues in the location?

I have a feeling that everyone who has emailed Malak0 may get some sort of automated reply in the next few hours….

..Either that, or its an automated bot that reads the emails and is looking for a specific phrase or question, I’ll bet….no reason to to go the trouble of creating the email address and not doing anything with it.

* In the book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
* 42nd Street in New York is a very main and popular street, including many landmarks such as the Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, New York Public Library, and Times Square.
* 42 is a disastrous number in Japan; the pronunciation of the number sounds similar to “going to death” in Japanese.

On another note, I know that Mr Orci periodically makes appearances here at TM, but has been conspicuously silent over this viral thing. I have this vision of him, Kurtzman and Abrams all cracking beers and laughing their heads off at watching us trying to figure this thing out. Well done, gentlemen. I may be in a straight jacket after all this is over, but well done ;-)

@186, yeah, tinkered with that myself last night – I think whatever’s being pulled down by the back-end source is the only content it can display…
I modded the page to eliminate the “stopUpdating” (or whatever it was) and it produced nothing new after the two “messages.”

I believe that the electronic device that you found is a P.A.D.D., a Personal Access Display Device which is a hand-held computer interface, used as early as the 22nd century and well into the 24th century. From: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Padd.
It is from Star Trek. I believe that you should direct further inquiries to:

Here’s a crazy coincidence; I went searching for anything Star Trek related about the date February 11 (as in 2387-42) and the only thing I could come up with is that on that date in 1991, TNG episode “Clues” was first aired.

@206 – Commodor Redshirt — Got it. Just misunderstood you. I think this is a way too complex for those guys, but it looks like they got some free advertising out of it. I’d like to see that installment!

That crazy story about the guy in Paris running and falling over those chairs, then screaming at people before running off and dropping a strange device. I do not know my Trek episodes (all series) as well as I’m sure some here do, but just now it occurred to me that that *almost* sounds like Bones in ‘The City on the Edge of Forever.’ I remember that he was crazed due to the overdose, but I don’t remember how long that lasted, and I don’t remember if he ended up dropping anything that Edith Keeler would have picked up.

Anyway… just another crazy random thought I thought I’d throw out there.

No real point, I guess. I was scanning other POI right near the intersection, and it’s there at 14-16 rue de Presles. Other buildings seem to be typical blocks of apartments with simple storefronts. Just paying attention.

What’s interesting is that in the tagline directly beneath “malak0″ ‘s name is this phrase:

“S’il te plaît… dessine-moi un mouton.”

That means “Please…draw me a sheep.”

I just happened to Google that phrase and happened to come across a whole slew of websites that deal with the phrase “Draw me a sheep” that seem tied to ecology-themed busineses, That tell me the “Draw me a sheep” almost certainly isn’t accidental.

This road may go nowhere, but at this point I have no better ideas to pursue right now….take it for what its worth.

Well, guys, I still think Malak0 is looking for a particular piece of information in the email or he just tosses back terse, rhetorical answers (or none at all). I’m kinda out of ideas right now, probably overthinking the game at the moment :)

That’s the number printed on the posters of the baby blowing out candles in the windows of Barclays at the intersection of Federation and Presles. Note, the same poster is posted on the Federation side and the Presles side (see photos from Super G).

The UFP President has an office in Paris, according to Memory Alpha, but UFP was founded in San Francisco. The bald guy who ran it in ST4 was SF-based. ST6 shows the French office.

I tend to scoff at Star Trek depictions of future Paris, as they show shiny skyscrapers next to, or near, the Eiffel Tower. In real life, today, historical central Paris is protected from such construction, and a district at the opposite end of Champs-Elysees from Place de la Concorde (La Defense) was created for skyscraper-type office buildings, complete with a (now) anachronistic futuristic depiction of the Arc of Triumph. There is the Montparnasse tower a bit away from the left bank, which seems to stand out as the only exception.

I love Paris, and this info is useless in our search for the ‘video device.’

6:30 am PT
I emailed yesterday, no response yet. If this person is involved we have to ask the right questions.
Either describe the device or draw a picture or send a picture of what you think it is.
Make a refrence to “The Little Prince”.
Or offer a reward. Or all three.
Or just wait for more clues. :)

I just sent an email, with some references to The Little Prince, LOST and Abrams himself thrown in, kind of like the email Ethan Hunt sent to Job in the first Mission: Impossible (something else conencted with Abrams, albeit not till two movies later).

We had the party pics, the binary sites, the empty site, those Japanes-French words, and now Malak0’s posts and mails. Is it usual for an ARG to have so many stages?
And that’s even before we find out what happens today, if somethong will happen. Is it 6PM for Japan (passed already), Paris (soon), or US?

I’d like 2 things:
1. Soon, what I guess Anthony will do anyway, is a concentration of all the replies from that mail.
2. Eventualy, an interview with the man who developed this ARG, to see how the hell they got this twisted idea :)

Also, do these virals always require such specialization? It’s like “Where’s Waldo?” for computer guys and linguists. I am not the former, but I am the latter for a few languages. This one seems to bring all of us together to solve a puzzle. That’s a great thing.

Any one want to guess if this is another clue? I am not sure but strange since David_Alexander hasn’t posted anything before or since. BTW … David Alexander is the author of “Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry”. Sounds like a clue to me!

My supervisor dropped a device you are describing. It is very sensitive and has important information on it. Please send a picture to verify it is indeed my supervisor’s device. He says it is worth alot to him and will pay good money as a reward. But I must see a picture of it first before I can discuss any reward. Please do not damage this device, it is very important.

I received a message back from mklvnd as well. It was just question marks: “????” Of course, my original message was just “testing” with “ST” in the subject line, as I was worried this person was not part of the APG. My thought was if this is not part of APG, I don’t want to write a long silly message; if this is part of APG, then surely the replies will be automated to whomever sent anything to this address in the past X number of days.

Since some of the above replies suggest the person is playing into the APG, apparently, it’s neither. I can’t believe the replies are not automated (or do they have programs able to parse text this well?)!

If the guy hasn’t done a shout-out by now that he’s got nothing to do with Trek, and looking at his stand-offish e-mails (hasn’t told us to go to hell, but requires more information), I think our hopes have improved that this is all part of the plan.

When I typed in Google “0100001101100001”, it brought up the website (0100001101100001.eu) but it also brought up ARGonaut. It is a website that had the following on it as a reply to an e-mail sent to MKLVND “I found a ‘device’ (appareil) It is 22cm x 15cm, blue / black. I have photo but not usb wire. I have photo but not usb wire. L’appareil, C’est a vous? L’appareil, C’est a vous?”

Looking at 0100001101100001.eu it looks like a picture of the Narada entering the vortex that takes them back in time. Was this not one of the sites that had other clues in it? I now just see the different components of the ship with that weird vortex looking thing.

kosmopol — I have been watching your progress on unfiction as well and have to say I commend you for drawing a sheep and sending it… That thought had crossed my mind earlier as well I just didn’t do it lol…

I found that “CaFeAlSiO6″ is a chemical composition. But everything written about it is Nonsense to me. Any one know what “Summary: Unusual clinopyroxenes were synthesized in the study of the join CaFeAlSiO6-CaTiAl2O6 in air at I atm. Clinopyroxene solid solution, hibonite solid solution, X-phase, perovskite, and corundum are present, and at subsolidus temperatures the clinopyroxene singlephase field extends up to about 19 wt% CaTiAl2O6. The CaTiAl2O6 component in the clinopyroxene however increases beyond the clinopyroxene single-phase field and attains 23 wt%. These clinopyroxene solid solutions are extremely poor in SiO2 and extremely rich in Al2O3, Fe2O3, and TiO2, and more than half of tetrahedral sites are occupied by AlIV, contravening the aluminium avoidance principle.” means?

Hm… Someones obviously talking about something that didn’t function correctly, a plan or something like that (from the german passages), something about salt… maybe these are passages from the dialogue in the movie…

PHPChatUser3: Kloidn*&%$)#mns
PHPChatUser3: *******?
PHPChatUser3: ??????
PHPChatUser3: *^*&!!!!!!!
PHPChatUser4: use the keyboard
PHPChatUser3: Whhat do you think im doing? “Fe ” is that you?
PHPChatUser4: Yes. Who else is?
PHPChatUser3: No one. Its not functioning. Great plan
PHPChatUser4: it was Karnis’ idea
PHPChatUser3: “Fe”‘s idea. and yes he didnt thought it through
PHPChatUser1: Hello?
PHPChatUser4: It seems this is.
PHPChatUser3: are you ok little one?
PHPChatUser1: I think. What, you did not reach it? Me, and I did not feel I had my right. And you did not respond to everyone.
PHPChatUser4: Do not worry. I think it has something left. Good job.
PHPChatUser3: do not lie to him. He is no idiot.
PHPChatUser4: Cállate, Janus.
PHPChatUser1: Where Kahnis? Should not you be here?
PHPChatUser3: “Fe”. Bin ich hier der Einzige, der unsere Decknamen benutzt?
PHPChatUser4: The next is that wrote this site for some reason.
PHPChatUser3: Have your special friend not seen. We are wasting our time here.
PHPChatUser5: Sorry, I’m late. There was a problem.
PHPChatUser4: You okay? Where are you?
PHPChatUser5: Yeah, it doesn’t matter. Glad to talk to everyone.
PHPChatUser3: You do not speak with everyone.
PHPChatUser5: What?
PHPChatUser1: YARAKASHITA you want to me. Encryption not know well. Sorry
PHPChatUser5: No, no.
PHPChatUser1: Maybe I can try once more. Guess what happened to luck.
PHPChatUser5: It’s ok. We’ll figure this out.
PHPChatUser4: I do not think anything will help change that. We should ask someone.
PHPChatUser3: Who exactly because?
PHPChatUser4: I do not know.
PHPChatUser5: Didn’t “Ca” mention someone?
PHPChatUser3: He is not here.
PHPChatUser5: He hasn’t checked in?
PHPChatUser3: What do you think what I said?

The German speaker (user3) is pessimistic about the situation, and complains that he’s the only one who uses the cover names. The Spanish speaker (user4) is less cautious. I don’t know the first thing about understanding PhPChatUser1.

PHPChatUser4: I am sure that he was arrested.
PHPChatUser1: How can I keep it long? I’m better I went to see one of us? You?
PHPChatUser5: No. “Ca” was right, splitting up gives us our best shot.
PHPChatUser1: it would be difficult to catch us from it?
PHPChatUser5: We’ll worry about that when and if we have to.
PHPChatUser4: We must wait for “Ca” and he will tell us what the next step.
PHPChatUser3: It might already be too late for the next step, perhaps our only chance we have missed! You have no idea what is going on here!
PHPChatUser5: Neither do you!!! Knock it off – I can get to you quickly. We don’t need you to lose control, again.
PHPChatUser4: None of this is helping
PHPChatUser3: slave.
PHPChatUser1: I had better help him?
PHPChatUser3: really funny!
PHPChatUser5: He’ll be fine.
PHPChatUser3: I disappear now, when he did not come. Just as a warning for you. We have tried, it did not work – I have done my duty.
PHPChatUser4: And where are you going exactly?
PHPChatUser3: Let this be my concern.
PHPChatUser5: Just stay out of sight this time. I think we’ve been noticed, we didn’t clean up properly.
PHPChatUser3: Do I now receive orders from you? Just because you’re at the bottom of the salt knew what to do – when I almost lost my arm.
PHPChatUser5: Your problem in the salt is that you gave up too quickly. Maybe if you spent some time figuring out the right trajectory.
PHPChatUser3: This will not help.
PHPChatUser5: Just try. We’ll meet back here in 2.
PHPChatUser3: Yes, yes. I’m away ..
____PHPChatUser3 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser1: I think you see that someone else – just wait.
PHPChatUser5: You sure?
PHPChatUser4: How were they?
PHPChatUser1: different. I went past.
PHPChatUser4: Relax, we all need to relax and think good things and not act like frightened animals. Nobody looks at us in your mind.
PHPChatUser5: I’m working on the magnetic interference. Can you look at the frequency stuff?
PHPChatUser1: Oh, yeah. I can about it. If you research a little.
PHPChatUser5: Good, we need a little more time.
PHPChatUser1: still, I think?
PHPChatUser4: I’ll
PHPChatUser5: You know when to come back?
PHPChatUser1: If you need to get, I will contact as soon as possible. OK?
PHPChatUser5: OK, stay hidden and safe
PHPChatUser1: try hard.
____PHPChatUser1 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser5: It was his very first run.
PHPChatUser4: You should have stopped coming to you
PHPChatUser5: I hate feeling like this. We have to get it right, and fast.
PHPChatUser4: Trajabaré as often it may be that.
PHPChatUser4: Are you still there?
PHPChatUser5: Yes, sorry. I’m here.
PHPChatUser5: Thank you, Candir.
PHPChatUser4: Watch out let me know if you need me.
____PHPChatUser4 has disconnected____
____PHPChatUser5 has disconnected____

If I think properly maybe these guys are also talking about the french one loosing the device “I think we’ve been noticed, we didn’t clean up properly.”
So, either they are some timetravelers or something like Section 31

My apologizes I do not speak french. My friend lost a similar device while in Paris. I believe you have found the device he lost. This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside. The code for the box is 1010101000. I hope this helps. Also, any picture you could send would also help to see if you found the same device.

What’s going to happen is that one of these people is going to mysteriously “get” to malak0 first, and we’ll eventually all get emails claiming the device has been returned to its owner and to stop pestering him.

—–E-mail d’origine—–
De : James Lytle
A : mklvnd@aol.fr
Envoyé le : Jeudi, 16 Avril 2009 23:10
Sujet : Thanks for finding it.
I would appreciate it if I could get the item please. I am not a serial killer. 

PHPChatUser1 Test, test, test, test. That? Faster than the time I know I’ve, got response?
____PHPChatUser1 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser2 Carrefour de la Rue de la Fédération et Rue de Presles
____PHPChatUser2 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser3 Kloidn*&%$)#mns
PHPChatUser3 *******?
PHPChatUser3 ??????
PHPChatUser3 *^*&!!!!!!!
PHPChatUser4 Use the keyboard.
PHPChatUser3 What do you think what I do here? “Fe”, bist du das?
PHPChatUser4 Yes Who else is?
PHPChatUser3 Nobody. It does not work. Great plan.
PHPChatUser4 Idea was Karnis.
PHPChatUser3 “Fe’s” idea. And yes, he has not thought about.
PHPChatUser1 Hello?
PHPChatUser4 It appears this is.
PHPChatUser3 Are you OK, kid?
PHPChatUser1 I think. What, you did not reach it? Me, and I did not feel I had my right. And you did not respond to everyone.
PHPChatUser4 Do not worry. I think it has something left. Good job.
PHPChatUser3 Him not to lie. He is no idiot.
PHPChatUser4 Shut up, Janus.
PHPChatUser1 Where Kahnis? Should not you be here?
PHPChatUser3 “Fe”. Am I the only one who uses the pseudonym?
PHPChatUser4 The next is that wrote this site for some reason.
PHPChatUser3 Have your special friend not seen. We are wasting our time here.
PHPChatUser5 Sorry, I’m late. There was a problem.
PHPChatUser4 You okay? Where are you?
PHPChatUser5 Yeah, it doesn’t matter. Glad to talk to everyone.
PHPChatUser3 You speak not with everyone.
PHPChatUser5 What?
PHPChatUser1 I want to be YARAKASHITA. Encryption not know well. Sorry.
PHPChatUser5 No, no.
PHPChatUser1 Maybe I can try once more. Guess what happened to luck.
PHPChatUser5 It’s ok. We’ll figure this out.
PHPChatUser4 I do not think anything will help change that. We should ask someone.
PHPChatUser3 Wen because that?
PHPChatUser4 I do not know.
PHPChatUser5 Didn’t “Ca” mention someone?
PHPChatUser3 He is not here.
PHPChatUser5 He hasn’t checked in?
PHPChatUser3 What do you think what I said?
PHPChatUser4 I am sure that he was arrested.
PHPChatUser1 How can I keep it long? I’m better I went to see one of us? You?
PHPChatUser5 No. “Ca” was right, splitting up gives us our best shot.
PHPChatUser1 It would be difficult to catch us from it?
PHPChatUser5 We’ll worry about that when and if we have to.
PHPChatUser4 We should expect to “Ca” and he will tell us what the next step.
PHPChatUser3 It might already be too late for the next step, perhaps our only chance we have missed! You have no idea what is going on here!
PHPChatUser5 Neither do you!!! Knock it off – I can get to you quickly. We don’t need you to lose control, again.
PHPChatUser4 None of this is helping.
PHPChatUser3 Slave.
PHPChatUser1 I had better help him?
PHPChatUser3 Really funny!
PHPChatUser5 He’ll be fine.
PHPChatUser3 I now disappear if he does not come. Just as a warning for you. We have tried, it did not work – I have done my duty.
PHPChatUser4 And where are you exactly?
PHPChatUser3 Let this be my concern.
PHPChatUser5 Just stay out of sight this time. I think we’ve been noticed, we didn’t clean up properly.
PHPChatUser3 Do I now receive orders from you? Just because you’re at the bottom of the salt knew what to do – when I almost lost my arm.
PHPChatUser5 Your problem in the salt is that you gave up too quickly. Maybe if you spent some time figuring out the right trajectory.
PHPChatUser3 That will not help.
PHPChatUser5 Just try. We’ll meet back here in 2.
PHPChatUser3 Yes, yes. I’m gone.
____PHPChatUser3 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser1 I think you see that someone else – just wait.
PHPChatUser5 You sure?
PHPChatUser4 How were they?
PHPChatUser1 Different. I went past.
PHPChatUser4 Relax, we all need to relax and think good things and not act like frightened animals. Nobody looks at us in your mind.
PHPChatUser5 I’m working on the magnetic interference. Can you look at the frequency stuff?
PHPChatUser1 Oh, yeah. I can about it. If you research a little.
PHPChatUser5 Good, we need a little more time.
PHPChatUser1 Still, I think?
PHPChatUser4 We’ll
PHPChatUser5 You know when to come back?
PHPChatUser1 If you need to get, I will contact as soon as possible. OK?
PHPChatUser5 OK, stay hidden and safe
PHPChatUser1 Try hard.
____PHPChatUser1 has disconnected____
PHPChatUser5 It was his very first run.
PHPChatUser4 You should have stopped coming to you.
PHPChatUser5 I hate feeling like this. We have to get it right, and fast.
PHPChatUser4 Trajabaré as often it may be that.
PHPChatUser4 Are you still there?
PHPChatUser5 Yes, sorry. I’m here.
PHPChatUser5 Thank you, Candir.
PHPChatUser4 Take care let me know if you need me.
____PHPChatUser4 has disconnected____
____PHPChatUser5 has disconnected____

I am not the person that had this item at first, nevertheless I know that this is a device with at least the function to communicate through Internet. Not not please to be very prudent with that, and does import for him that to show. The bad person visionary that it could mean the danger for you.

The last couple sentences I wrote from English actually said, “Please be careful with this device and show it to no one. If the wrong person sees it, it could be danger for you.”

This is really cool! I’m getting completely interested in this!

(along with the fear of realizing I have no life!)

BTW, the original account of this device being dropped and found mentions the carrier wearing a hat and not being seen too well. When Star Trek premiered in Austin by surprise, Nimoy appeared on stage wearing a hat and overcoat…

About the sound file…some sounds reapear numeros times, some not. Maybe the time codes when a certain sound appears give an IP adress when put together? I tried it with the most obvious….time codes where there is silcence…that way I get:
30 50 25 40 09 (when looking only at seconds)
if I use minutes too I get:

What else would it be? The original element sites are definately Star Trek related (links appeared on Star Trek party photos and contain an image of the Narada, as well as sound effects from the film). They point towards this website, which is a very similar IP address and holds a discussion with code words relating back to the elements concerned on the first set of sites. How can it not be?

If he/she were a total dead end, then wouldn’t he/she either ignore all of the bizarre e-mails or be a great deal more insulting than using the word “idiote”? I would personally just stick everything in my spam folder and forget about it… I certainly wouldn’t answer virtually all of them.

There’s more to be found here, I’m almost sure of it.

Then again, I suppose it’s possible that we’re all completely on the wrong path, and that somewhere, Bob Orci’s laughter booms as he watches us from the top of his tower.

If the translations I’m reading of the new chat sequences are correct then I believe the 5 (or 6?) chat users are the Narada crew. There is a short convo about being in salt and some breaking their arm. If you have read Countdown then you know that Nero and his men are miners….perhaps they mined salt at some point?

If that’s true then it would be safe to assume that the ‘device’ is a Romulan PADD, tricorder, or communicator. Perhaps someone could email a pic of a Romulan device to Malak0 and see what he says. I’m going to be busy the rest of the day so I can’t really follow up on this, somebody to it for me! :)

Also, I was doing some digging this morning and I found that ‘680’ is DCLXXX in Roman numerals. I tried a lot of different url’s with no luck, I even attached VI to it and nothing but if anyone else has any ideas for that numeral, feel free to do some checking.

Malak0 keeps mentioning pictures of the device. I’m starting to think that there is still another hidden site out there, possibly with a pic of the device….maybe if we find that then Malak0 will give up some more info!

The item that Malak0 has is a COMMUNICATOR not a tricorder. The communicator is “Blue and black” and Grey. It seems it would be about the same size 22cm(8.6 inches) x 15cm(5.9 inches) open. This would cause the “static” malak0 is talking about.

I´m giving up…I ran the audio file thru various filters…in different speeds…backward…forward….you name it….I can´t find anything.
Maybe what ever it is went thru a flanger filter….maybe we need to de-flanger it? I don´t have the right software to do that.

I keep thinking back to when the official site (startrekmovie.com) went on line, with the small glowing dot that lead to ncc-1701.com. That wasn’t obvious but it could be discovered, and there wasn’t much doubt that particular viral site was Trek related.

I suppose that I’m just to the point that I have to step back and look at the big picture. First, the binary sites were all discovered in establishments that have seen a lot of traffic, parties, etc. Who is to say how long ago those binary sites were scribbled on the walls, or by whom? Second, the only definitive evidence thus far seems to be a composite of what appears to be the Narada. In thinking about this last night however, I thought that it could also be a CGI of something else…maybe magnetic flux? Smoke? It looks like what the Narada could be, but it could possibly be something else. Third, the Parisian intersection’s only connection seems to be the ‘Federation’ street. There doesn’t really seem to be anything else there to suggest that it is Trek related, even after more than a week of analyzing those pics and several others. As someone in another posting said, it seems strange that Paramount would engage in a viral marketing campaign while we are so close to the movie’s release. Fourth, the new conversation on http://www.2387-42.com doesn’t even sound remotely Trek related. I would have expected to see some small hint today, but nothing. Thus far, I have to say that the only evidence would appear to be a picture of Narada (possibly?), a street in Paris called ‘Federation’ and a website that contains ‘2387’. It just doesn’t sound like much to base a marketing campaign on that is designed to draw in the masses to a blockbuster movie.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve spent a great deal of time on this puzzle myself and I’m just as curious as everyone else as to what it could all mean. I don’t cast dispersion on anyone here who is looking into this, I’m just starting to have my doubts that it is a Trek related thing. To me, the connections to Star Trek are starting to feel somewhat circumstantial at best. Perhaps it is a viral game of some sort? I’ve never seen one operate before, so I can’t say. My humble opinion…

I don’t think “drawing the masses” is the intent of this ARG, or even most of the advertising for that matter. It’s meant to reaffirm choices or ideas already made — advertising rarely “makes” people do anything. In this case, they’re trying to build excitement among people who are already fans (notice, we’re on a Star Trek site), and hoping our excitement influences others.

@336

I wouldn’t be so fast to say it’s not a Federation crew. Assuming they’ve traveled back in time by accident, panic is understandable. Maybe it’s just me, but I was reading PHPChatUser5 (the “American”) as a young James T. Kirk.

#338,
Perhaps you are right with that, and the excitement is definitely there. I would have hoped however that one might spot a Starfleet chevron in the Google pics for example, or seen one of the PHP chat users utter the word ‘Klingon’ or ‘Romulan’. My feeling at this point is that we (including myself) seem to be stretching for some sort of Trek connection, and it is really getting hard to see what that might be. Perhaps I’ll be proven wrong as things progress? Maybe. Not like I’ve ever been wrong before though ;-)

user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Test, test, test, test. That? Faster than the time I know I’ve, got response?
____user1 – Yarakashita (jp) has disconnected____
user2 Ca (fr) Carrefour de la Rue de la Fédération et Rue de Presles
____user2 Ca (fr) has disconnected____
user3 Janus (de) Kloidn*&%$)#mns
user3 Janus (de) *******?
user3 Janus (de) ??????
user3 Janus (de) *^*&!!!!!!!
user4 Candir (es) Use the keyboard.
user3 Janus (de) What do you think what I do here? “Fe”, bist du das?
user4 Candir (es) Yes Who else is?
user3 Janus (de) Nobody. It does not work. Great plan.
user4 Candir (es) Idea was Karnis.
user3 Janus (de) “Fe’s” idea. And yes, he has not thought about.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Hello?
user4 Candir (es) It appears this is.
user3 Janus (de) Are you OK, kid?
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) I think. What, you did not reach it? Me, and I did not feel I had my right. And you did not respond to everyone.
user4 Candir (es) Do not worry. I think it has something left. Good job.
user3 Janus (de) Him not to lie. He is no idiot.
user4 Candir (es) Shut up, Janus.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Where Kahnis? Should not you be here?
user3 Janus (de) “Fe”. Am I the only one who uses the pseudonym?
user4 Candir (es) The next is that wrote this site for some reason.
user3 Janus (de) Have your special friend not seen. We are wasting our time here.
user5 Unknown (us) Sorry, I’m late. There was a problem.
user4 Candir (es) You okay? Where are you?
user5 Unknown (us) Yeah, it doesn’t matter. Glad to talk to everyone.
user3 Janus (de) You speak not with everyone.
user5 Unknown (us) What?
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) I want to be YARAKASHITA. Encryption not know well. Sorry.
user5 Unknown (us) No, no.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Maybe I can try once more. Guess what happened to luck.
user5 Unknown (us) It’s ok. We’ll figure this out.
user4 Candir (es) I do not think anything will help change that. We should ask someone.
user3 Janus (de) Wen because that?
user4 Candir (es) I do not know.
user5 Unknown (us) Didn’t “Ca” mention someone?
user3 Janus (de) He is not here.
user5 Unknown (us) He hasn’t checked in?
user3 Janus (de) What do you think what I said?
user4 Candir (es) I am sure that he was arrested.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) How can I keep it long? I’m better I went to see one of us? You?
user5 Unknown (us) No. “Ca” was right, splitting up gives us our best shot.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) It would be difficult to catch us from it?
user5 Unknown (us) We’ll worry about that when and if we have to.
user4 Candir (es) We should expect to “Ca” and he will tell us what the next step.
user3 Janus (de) It might already be too late for the next step, perhaps our only chance we have missed! You have no idea what is going on here!
user5 Unknown (us) Neither do you!!! Knock it off – I can get to you quickly. We don’t need you to lose control, again.
user4 Candir (es) None of this is helping.
user3 Janus (de) Slave.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) I had better help him?
user3 Janus (de) Really funny!
user5 Unknown (us) He’ll be fine.
user3 Janus (de) I now disappear if he does not come. Just as a warning for you. We have tried, it did not work – I have done my duty.
user4 Candir (es) And where are you exactly?
user3 Janus (de) Let this be my concern.
user5 Unknown (us) Just stay out of sight this time. I think we’ve been noticed, we didn’t clean up properly.
user3 Janus (de) Do I now receive orders from you? Just because you’re at the bottom of the salt knew what to do – when I almost lost my arm.
user5 Unknown (us) Your problem in the salt is that you gave up too quickly. Maybe if you spent some time figuring out the right trajectory.
user3 Janus (de) That will not help.
user5 Unknown (us) Just try. We’ll meet back here in 2.
user3 Janus (de) Yes, yes. I’m gone.
____user3 Janus (de) has disconnected____
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) I think you see that someone else – just wait.
user5 Unknown (us) You sure?
user4 Candir (es) How were they?
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Different. I went past.
user4 Candir (es) Relax, we all need to relax and think good things and not act like frightened animals. Nobody looks at us in your mind.
user5 Unknown (us) I’m working on the magnetic interference. Can you look at the frequency stuff?
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Oh, yeah. I can about it. If you research a little.
user5 Unknown (us) Good, we need a little more time.
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Still, I think?
user4 Candir (es) We’ll
user5 Unknown (us) You know when to come back?
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) If you need to get, I will contact as soon as possible. OK?
user5 Unknown (us) OK, stay hidden and safe
user1 – Yarakashita (jp) Try hard.
____user1 – Yarakashita (jp) has disconnected____
user5 Unknown (us) It was his very first run.
user4 Candir (es) You should have stopped coming to you.
user5 Unknown (us) I hate feeling like this. We have to get it right, and fast.
user4 Candir (es) Trajabaré as often it may be that.
user4 Candir (es) Are you still there?
user5 Unknown (us) Yes, sorry. I’m here.
user5 Unknown (us) Thank you, Candir.
user4 Candir (es) Take care let me know if you need me.
____user4 Candir (es) has disconnected____
____user5 Unknown (us) has disconnected____

As for the other codes David_Alexander left, about the only thing I find is that they add up to 744 when conveted to decimal. Other than that, they more closely resemble a bitmap character or graphic image of some sort..

I have sort of found some answers in David Alexander’s code which I will repeat here as best as I have figured it out. The first part was Binary to Decimal to ASCII. The rest is Binary to Decimal but nothing leaps out there.

Enough is enough, I’m tired of no one believing how crazy this device
is. I am going to make a video to show you people. Maybe one of you
isn’t dumb and immature, and can tell me how to turn it on so I can
track down the owner. I know that none of you is the owner because you
believed my false description of the colour. I’ll get the video up in
the next day or so.

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